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Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association
Volume 53 Issue 1, January 2016
65
The Odds Are You Will Relate to the Book, Struck by Lightning by Jeffrey S Rosenthal
Reviewed by Cheyenne Murphy
The book Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities, by Jeffrey S Rosenthal, was an entertaining and thoughtful book. The book has 17 relatively short chapters and includes a “final exam” at the end of the book that measures your probability perspective. The book’s 17 chapters are short and easy to read, tying one chapter to the next in a cohesive manner. The key concept of this book is probability, the odds and oddities of chance and randomness in our everyday life. The author gives an entertaining
yet sophisticated look at the world of probabilities. Jeffrey S Rosenthal explains the world of probabilities, the mechanics of randomness in everyday life and teaches us how to develop our own perspective on probability.
